How a hoax about Paul Krugman and the earthquake fooled online pundits

Yesterday’s earthquake offered a reminder of something we really should have learned by now: You can’t take everything on the internet at face value. Not long after the quake, Tim Carney of the conservative Washington Examiner joked in a tweet that liberal New York Times political columnist Paul Krugman thought it hadn’t been big enough

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How a hoax about Paul Krugman and the earthquake fooled online pundits

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